Anne C. Conway
How Judge Conway decides
Patterns drawn from this judge's own signed orders. Every observation links to the order it came from.
What persuades
Applies the Noerr-Pennington doctrine to immunize pre-litigation conduct: trademark cease-and-desist / demand letters to a competitor's distributors are petitioning activity protected from tort liability unless the plaintiff proves the 'sham exception' -- both that the activity was objectively baseless (no reasonable litigant could expect success) and subjectively intended to interfere rather than seek redress.
“the doctrine extends not only to petitioning of the judicial branch (i.e., filing a lawsuit), but also to acts reasonably attendant to litigation, such as demand letters.”
Procedural preferences
Strict on Rule 56 mechanics and the Case Management Order: a summary-judgment non-movant must specifically controvert each of the movant's stated undisputed facts and give pinpoint record citations. A bulk affidavit without pinpoint citations does not create a genuine dispute -- she will deem the movant's facts undisputed and decide without searching the record.
“Because SHR fails to properly address Ford's assertions of fact, the Court considers those facts undisputed.”
Will not relax court-ordered deadlines without a good-cause showing, even on a stipulation of counsel; deadlines set early in the case govern.
“To the extent the stipulation of counsel seeks relief from Court ordered deadlines it is denied. ... No good cause has been shown for an extension.”
Polices removal jurisdiction independently and requires evidence, not generalized assertions, when the complaint does not establish the amount in controversy. In a declaratory-judgment action, the removing party must value the dispute from the plaintiff's perspective.
“The Court will not engage in such speculative guesswork.”
Signed rulings
A grounded sample of orders signed by this judge, with the verbatim dispositive language.
“ORDER granting 33 Motion for Partial Summary Judgment. Plaintiff Silverhorse Racing, LLC Complaint (Doc. No. 2) is dismissed.”
“Ford's Motor Company's Motion for Summary Judgment (Doc. 51) is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part. ... Ford is ORDERED to file a Proposed Order setting forth injunctive relief consistent with this Order”
“Silverhorse Racing, LLC's Motion for Partial Summary Judgment (Doc. 54) is DENIED.”
Sua sponte jurisdictional remand, not a ruling on a party motion. The disposition states: "This case is hereby REMANDED for lack of jurisdiction to the Circuit Court of the Ninth Judicial Circuit in and for Osceola County, Florida."
Caseload & timing
From public federal docket records for this judge.
Median case duration in the sampled dockets: 171 days (N = 20).
Median motion-to-ruling time: 214 days (N = 3).
In the reviewed 2016 civil matters, many employment, benefits, and consumer cases settled at mediation within several months. Prisoner civil-rights and habeas matters often ended within days or weeks, while a smaller number of commercial disputes continued through contested relief, including a trademark case that reached a permanent injunction after roughly two years. The mix is descriptive rather than a complete caseload measure.
Put Judge Conway's record to work
Ezel drafts and answers grounded in this exact profile: how Judge Conway actually rules, not a generic AI guess.
Opens in Ezel Pro. Every answer is grounded in Judge Conway's own signed orders and cites them.